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J.F.K'S significance in theimprovement of equal rights for black Americans By Sade Thomas…read more

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Kennedy's First year He pushed for more blacks to be employed by the federal government. Kennedy had appointed 40 blacks to top posts and he chose 5 black judged which include Thurgood Marshall who had be known to be involved in the NAACP movement. However Kennedy did appoint segregationists to judicial posts in the Deep South, which would help political realism as he didn't want to alienate southern white voters. No previous president had ever made so many black appointments and therefore Kennedy must be seen as responsible for advancing civil rights in the federal employment sector.…read more

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Kennedy and his Legalisticapproach and Robert Kennedy Appointed his brother Robert as Attorney General at the Justice Department with the job of enforcing existing law. Robert desegregated schools in New Orleans, Atlanta and Memphis. Robert brought 57 cases against illegal violations of black voting rights in the South, compared to a mere six under Eisenhower.…read more

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Kennedy's Symbolic gestures Invited more blacks to the White House than any previous president. Left an exclusive club which denied membership to blacks. Threatened to cut funding when the Washington red skins refused to take black players, because of this threat, the team signed 3 black players.…read more

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1961 1961 Freedom rides launched: Kennedy forced to send in the National Guard to protect Freedom Riders During 1969 Justice Department used Federal Marshals to enforce desegregation…read more

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1962 During the Meredith VS University of Mississippi, in his admission Bobby Kennedy sent 500 marshals to help James Meredith to enrol. Kennedy sent the Mississippi National Guard and US army soldiers to the area In Alabama Kennedy sent in federal troops, marshals and the federalised Alabama National Guard At Alabama JFK declared black inequality immoral, appealing to the Bible and the US constitution.…read more